Robocopy vs. XCopy NAS Performance Comparison

The purpose of this performance test is to compare the performance of file copy operations to/from a NAS server using the Windows built-in command line file copy utilities Robocopy and XCopy. The performance test was performed on a quad-core machine with 16 GB of system memory running the Windows Server 2016 operating system. The file copy operations were performed between two identical servers equipped with Samsung 950 Pro 1TB SSD drives via the Gigabit network using the same data set containing 30,000 small and medium-sized files.